What _exactly_ do you mean when you say the HP w22 monitor is "not supported"? 
 Only that you cannot select it from the drop-down vendor list?
 Or also that you can't get it to work well or work at all?

Many monitors aren't in the vendor list, because nowadays most monitors support Plug'n Play

If your monitor works badly or not at all: when did you notice that:
 when *replacing* another monitor with the HP w22 monitor?
 or when *adding* the HP w22 as a second monitor?
 or.... ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => mageiatools, marja11

Dear Marja van Waes,

Thanks for the answer!

Both, it's not in the drop-down vendor list and it doesn't work.
But I solved the problem as follows.

For the HP w22 monitor you could choose a similar monitor.

After that, I noticed that my Quadro NVS 295 graphics card could not handle a large screen size.
Planar Dome E5 (2560x2048) + HP w22 (1680x1050)
After I switched to a GT 630 it worked. That's why I think the graphics card was the main problem. 'NVIDIA X Server Setting' is a bit more informative than 'XFdrake' (sorry).

Additionally, is it possible to add your own monitors to the drop-down vendor list?

Best regards,
Heiko Stark

(In reply to Heiko Stark from comment #2)
> Dear Marja van Waes,
> 
> Thanks for the answer!
> 
> Both, it's not in the drop-down vendor list and it doesn't work.
> But I solved the problem as follows.
> 
> For the HP w22 monitor you could choose a similar monitor.
> 
> After that, I noticed that my Quadro NVS 295 graphics card could not handle
> a large screen size.
> Planar Dome E5 (2560x2048) + HP w22 (1680x1050)
> After I switched to a GT 630 it worked. That's why I think the graphics card
> was the main problem. 'NVIDIA X Server Setting' is a bit more informative
> than 'XFdrake' (sorry).
> 
> Additionally, is it possible to add your own monitors to the drop-down
> vendor list?

The monitor vendor list comes from

 /usr/share/ldetect-lst/MonitorsDB

I always assumed only CRT monitors need to be listed there.


@ Thierry or anyone else:

1. is that true, that the MonitorsDB is only meant for CRT monitors?
2. This bug confuses me, especially what Heiko tells about his graphic card. Is
   there anything that should be fixed in one of our packages?

Source RPM: drakx-kbd-mouse-x11-1.23-1.mga6 => drakx-kbd-mouse-x11-1.23-1.mga6. ldetect-lst

Nope, it's not restricted to CRT monitors

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

format is :

<Manufacturer>; <Monitor name>; <EISA ID (if any)>; <horiz sync in Khz>; <vert sync in Hz>; DPMS support or preferred_resolution

so here it would be sg like:
Hewlett-Packard; HP W22xxxxxxxxx; HWPxxxxxx; ...

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Same above. Forget really closing.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD